The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-12

forgery, but the attorney.geueral, In bic
opinion IN fha case. concludes that the resl
object Of extradition proceedings was an at
tempt to make Harttgah ply over Honey re.
ceivedfrom Powell in q business Transaction.
A.J. Whitman, lookkeeper for the Central
Union Telephone Company, Chicago; was ar
rested Monday for forgery, and waving e !.
animation was committed to the criminal
court under to6, 1000 bonds. Three years ago
Whitman entered the telephone company's
employ, and rapidly won his way to a position
OF confidence and responsibility. Within
three years, so far as asccrtained, he has &C.
quircd . deficit Of ss0,oc0. Whitman TAG I'm.
able to furnish bail and vent to jail.
About six acres in Cincinnati was burned
over Thursday night. The district was known
as "eloptown," and the tenement houses on
1t were mostly occupied by poor families.
The fire burned so tiercely and rapidly that
not any Of the household goods were saved,
and fifty COWS were cremated in various
stables. The fire covered the greatest space
ever swept by flames in Cincinnati. The loss
will probably amount 10 the aggregate to
100000. Probably $50 people are homeless.
DR.. E. D. Stamford died at Louisville,
Kentucky, on Tuesday morning, aged So.
He was seriously Ill for a week before his
marriage to Mrs. Laura Scott, q little over
two weeks < DR.. standiford was an active
candidate for the United States senate to
succeed Beck. He was cx-presidcnt Of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and was
actively concerned in several other concerns,
also being . farmer On an extensive scale.
A special from Portsmouth, Ohio, says the
jury in the celebrated case of All Mccoy,
charged with the murder Of DIR. Northrup, re.
turned is verdict Monday morning. Mccoy
ts found guilty Of murder in the second de-
gree. The crime of Mccoy was for the killing
In May last, at Haverhill, Of DIR. Northrup.
The victim was a noted prohihitlonist, and 1t
wat claimed that Mccoy, who owned a ga
loon, felt enmity toward him on that account.
There is much dist abstraction with the yer.
dict. The shooting was dorc in daylight on
the street, and most Of the people regard 1t
worthy of capital punishment.
: A collision OF two freight trains occurred
Wednesday on the Burlington and Missouri
road between North Bend aud Ashland
Nebraska. Both engines and thirteen cars
were thrown over the cmbankment into the
North Platte river. Two tramps stealing a
ride were killed. The engineers and fircmen
escaped by Jumping. The cause of the acct
dent evidently lays with the train dispatcher.
The train coming was . regular freight and
had orders to meet an extra at Ashland. The
extra going cast also mad orders to meet the
regular at North Bend. They met on a curve
at the rivers bend and the collision was
terrible.
Pending an appeal Of his case to the su-
preme court, Paul Grottkau, the anarchist cd
tor of the Arbeiter Zcitung who was convict
ed of melting labor riots here last year and
sentenced to one years imprisonment, was
released on bail. Alarmed by the report that
he was about 10 flee to Germany, his bonds
men Tuesday surrendered him to the sheriff.
Trouble is the result of the row in
which the entire socialist section IL
concerned, the leaders of which are having u
lively rumpus among themselves. Grottka,l
will have to remain in Jail until the supreme
court arrives at n decision, which will not be
sooner than November.
John Beall, thirteen years old, who has been
in jail six weeks at Eaton, Ohio, on the
charge of killing his mother, has made q con-
%fession, in which he says he did the decd. On
June IA this boy was at lone with his mother
and about 4 O'Clock alarmed the ncighbors by
saying three tramps had killed his mother
when he was asleep, but awakened In time to
see them leaving with some money aud a
watch. The boy had shot hts mother twice
and then nearly beheaded her with an axe.
No motive for the crime can be assigned. ex-
ccpt he was angry at what seemed to him 10
be evidences of favori SIN shown to his sietcr
by his mother.
A fire in . bakery in Chicago ON Friday
morning, over which two families lived. re.
ulted In the injury of eleven persons and the
probable death of five. The building islccatcd
at 3l65 Archer avenue. The two wear old
child of Mrs. Trugo was burned to death.
While trying to rescue Mrs. Trugo and child,
who were being lowered from a second story
window, Capt. Cowan, of truck No. III, was
badly burned about the face. Healso Inhaled
a large quantity of hot afr and is thought to
be fatally burned. The mother was so badly
burned she succomhcd to her injuries a few
minutes later. Four of the Tfugo children
are among those not expected to live. Two
bakers, WIG are believed to be responsible for
neglect which caused the fire have been
The police said the pair had BE-
come drowsv from dri.k, and instead of
watching the stove fell into a st,por from
which they only awakened when they and the
tcnements above were at the mercy of the
flames.
WASHINGTON.
A delegation from Lynchburg, Va, headed
by Senator Daniels, has rendered the presi-